About the Position

We are seeking a Networking Software Engineer to join our team and develop new kinds of functionality through hardware/software co-design. Are you a software engineer with a disposition towards networking software who loves working up and down the OSI stack? We are taking a very ambitious approach with respect to networking: not only have we developed our own compute sled and cabled backplane, we have also developed our own switch, and then the entire stack of software from the lowest levels of firmware to end-user experience - and everything in between!

Responsibilities

As a software engineer focused on networking, you will:

Collaborate with other engaged, friendly systems engineers to understand customer use cases and implement the core of the Oxide platform.
Operate across multiple layers of the stack to build a true rack-scale system, including our integrated switch, a custom compute sled, and all software connecting and orchestrating them.
Develop tools to simulate and analyze complex networks, including those deployed in production at customer sites. Logging, tracing, and metrics are critical pieces of distributed systems, and you’ll get the chance to dig into them all.
Write code in Rust, C, and some P4. The code you write will be open source (e.g., the Oxide Packet Transformation Engine, an in-kernel Rust module for packet processing), and across many different codebases.

Requirements

You will thrive in this role if you:

Have previously worked with Rust or another low-level systems language such as C.
Have a deep understanding of load balancing.
Have experience operating and developing IPsec-based VPN technologies.
Have implemented networking protocols in environments that were constrained by performance and correctness.
Have experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating data center networks using dynamic routing protocols and overlay networks.
Have experience with BGP implementation or deployment.
Enjoy the idea of owning the inter-rack networking end-to-end (host OS + NIC + switch + switch OS) – and also of integrating that networking with a customer’s larger network.
Are energized by the thought of jumping between implementing a new protocol (or a new implementation of an old one!), analyzing customer networking pathologies, and bringing kernel drivers to life.
Produce good documentation and/or written descriptions of your ideas.
Believe that the closed nature of low-level networking is a barrier to progress and want to work with a team breaking down that barrier.

We Offer

Remote first: Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.
Flexible working hours: Our families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us; our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that.
Premium healthcare: We offer the best medical PPO, dental, and vision plans we can find and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.
Compensation: Everyone at Oxide makes $275,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)

About the Company

We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:

Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.

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Networking Software Engineer

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